On Jul 30, 9:39, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > IIRC -- it's a modified Helvetica... The original was pretty
> > much a kind of wood-cut block thing that looked more like
> > Futura then Helvetica. Then came the blue helvetica thing with
> > the squarish dots on the i's.
> > Then they paid big money for the maroon move and rounted i's.
>
> Anybody know of a *computer* (e.g., Mac or PC, TrueType or such)
> version of this font? This was my original reason for asking, and
> I would *love* to be able to replace some of the logos on some of
> my equipment that is old and peeling off.. Mostly the rounded
> pdp11 logos.
There won't be a complete computer-based version of the font, because, like
most logos, it's been modified from a standard font, and only some of the
characters will have been created. The original is Futura, but the
ascenders and descenders are modified. If you want to see a PostScript
version of some logos, I did some a while back for pdp11.org, and you can
find them at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/ as the pdp*.ps files.
The one called pdp11_34.ps is an accurate rendition of one from my 11/34,
though I can't recall whether I checked it against the panel or one of the
manuals (probably the manuals). I should have a d|i|g|i|t|a|l one
somewhere, too, but based on the later almost-Helvetica font.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Mon Jul 30 2001 - 16:27:54 BST